Is it possible to activate/de-activate different parts of a dynamic form by ticking/unticking a checkbox?

[Former Community Member]

I am creating a form that has several sections with only a few sections relevant to any particular client. Essentially, I want to de-activate/make invisible the other sections that are not relevant to the client based on the checkboxes that they tick. Therefore the printed form shows only the sections relevant to the client. I am very new to Adobe Designer so any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1) Add checkbox for every section.

2) Set the ON value as Y and OFF value as N for every checkbox

3) Add script to achieving the following:

     if(chkbox.rawValue == "Y")

     {

          section.presence = "visible";

     }

     else

     {

          section.presence = "hidden";

     }

If you wish, you can send me the form @ kvdvijaykumar@gmail.com

Thanks,

VJ

[Former Community Member]

Thank you so much for your reply! This was really really helpful!

I was also wondering if there is anyway that I can connect two checkboxes to each other so that checking/unchecking one automatically checks/unchecks another at a different location in the form.  I want the client to select/de-select a checkbox earlier in the form that causes a checkbox  in later sub-sections of the form to be selected/deselected based on the earlier selection. The automatic select/de-select would then determine if the sub-section would be visible or hidden.

Thanks again for the help!

[Former Community Member]

Dear Kia111,

It is possible. What you can do is, insert a radio button group and set the appearance as "checkbox". In this case, you radio button group will appear as if two checkboxes are placed. But, the behavior will be the way you wanted. Checking one radio button (checkbox) will uncheck the other and vice-versa.

In this case, you  need to tweak your code based on the binding values set for each radio button in the radio button group. For eg., say if 1 and 2 are the binding values for two radio buttons:

if(chkbox.rawValue == "1")

     {

          section.presence = "visible";

     }

     else

     {

          section.presence = "hidden";

     }

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

VJ